EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

David Davis spends a lot of time practising his signature. Or getting someone to build it from his best tries.

An FT fella's summary of the white paper

https://twitter.com/SebastianEPayne/status/827140136961990656

it's like one of those 'and where do you see yourself in five years time?' HR assessment forms you have to fill out for your annual review.

The into to the white paper: Is Theresa May trying to imitate trump's folky rhetoric, or is she also borderline illiterate?

I don't think the leave vote represented a desire to stay in the EU but reform it though. If remain had won 52:48 but politicians had decided that it was best for us to leave as we couldn't get the deal we wanted I doubt people would have been of the view that that was reasonable.

If you look at the post brexit vote opinion polls there doesn't seem to be a great element of buyers' remorse, people still want to leave the EU even though it's evident that no-one has a clue what the plan is.

I think a better analogy would be remain winning 52/48 and politicians taking that as a green light to join the Euro. Given that a narrow win for leave means that we're heading for the hardest version of the headbangers brexit.

You might not agree with this, but it's an interesting take;

http://www.brussels2berlin.com/2017/02/europeans-have-been-lied-to-their-whole.html?spref=tw

Excellent

Good post and there is another issue:

"Britain is by no means alone in fostering feel-good myths of national self-sufficiently. This is a Europe-wide phenomenon."

Energy reliance on Russia. So now the EU is stuck between an orange rock and a sociopathic hard place.

http://time.com/4627780/russia-national-front-marine-le-pen-putin/ isn't a good read either.

But it's OK, we shouldn't worry about things until they have happened I was told today ;)

Well, if it looks like it might all go wrong at the last minute, we'll have some laws up our sleeves to save us. (Perhaps they should have used the word 'spells'?)

Ah, the Moon on a Stick Act 2019? I look forward to it.

'passing legislation as necessary to mitigate the effects of failing to reach a deal'.

weasel words that really mean the erosion of worker's rights aicmfp.

The poor snowflakes, having their sovereignty feels hurt by those nasty Europeans.

So many unnecessary full-stops! And sentences beginning with 'and', 'but' and 'because'. But that's ok. Because she probably wrote it in 5 minutes with some text-t0-speech app.

"no deal is better than a bad deal"

No deal doesn't exist, it's either WTO which is the minimum or such other, which is no deal with the EU, or a deal with the EU.

"no bicycle is better than a bad bicycle"
"no shit is better than bad shit"
Etc etc.

"no shit is better than bad shit"

no, no it is not.

Seems May has flown off to the future where the country has forgotten differences and come together behind Brexit- mental.

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Joke alert... it's just meaningless language IMHO :)

a bad bicycle is obv. better than no bicycle...right?
I think?
:)

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so much self censorship today. u ok hun?

No shit is better than some shit.

I doubt the remaining EU states will be able to coalesce around a deal that accommodates every opinion, so the no deal, WTO rules looks like the most likely option.

Load of crap.

"Expensive" rent plus maintenance issues is better than homeless.

Iirc you were pro Brexit, are you happy with how it is proceeding?

(Not trying to be difficult, but I don't know many leave voters so am interested in your take on things).